AFN is an advocacy group and INAC is not the Crown: Where are the nations?

Treaties that were signed or agreed upon between the encroaching settlers and original people involved two world views. The initial treaties from the Eastern door…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: July 13, 2016

Paddlers from across Ontario canoeing to Garden River for Great Lakes Gathering Two separate water journeys have converged on route to Garden River, Ontario for…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: July 6 2016

Mohawk Institute to become educational centre Reconciliation has become one of the biggest buzzwords of 2016. Last year, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (TRC)…

Onkwehonwe Week In Review: June 29 2016

Fort McMurray hit with wasp swarms and flooding following wildfires More than 80, 000 residents from the Northern Alberta community of Fort McMurray were forced…

Indian Agents at the Fort tables

Mu WÎyan Î’uch (Thunder woman speaks) Long, long ago in our camps or lodges the people lived each day with a spiritual and community connection.…

Sad About Our Plants

Dear Kitty, I have a very seriously upset family. We spent a lot of time growing our seeds to seedlings and carefully planting them outside…

Onkwehonwe Week In Review: June 15 2016

Quebec legislation puts the future of Mohawk internet casinos in jeopardy   Bill 74 is a little publicized bill that is moving it’s way through…

To all Gardeners

Ask Kitty Hello to all the gardeners, would be gardeners, soon to be gardeners and everyone that enjoys the garden’s bounty. What a fast and…

Onkwehonwe Week In Review: June 8, 2016

Controversy in Kanesatake over possible mine re-opening Nio-can is a mining company that has tried to re-open the dormant niobium mine in Kanesatake territory continuously…

Mu WÎyan Î’uch: Thunder Woman speaks

By Rachel A. Snow For this inaugural column, I will speak on education. If we think back to the teachings and original education systems of…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: June 1, 2016

Mohawk College plants Three Sisters Mohawk College’s Indigenous Gathering Space, named the Hoop Dance Garden, is now the home of mounds of soil planted with…

Onkwehonwe Week in Review: May 25, 2016

Prospect of development on disputed land prompts concern from Mohawks in Kanesatake A municipal bylaw, which allows for the development of 400 homes between Oka…

Onkwehonwe week in review: May 18 2016

Indigenous artists reclaiming space with Ogima Mikana project   Recently in Toronto, a billboard popped up at the intersection of Queen and Noble. It wasn’t…

Onkwehon:we week in Review, May 11 2016

First Nations in Alberta are helping Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees As wildfires ravage the small city of Fort McMurray, mandatory evacuations were issued. This created…

When to start working up the soil in my garden

Dear Kitty This question is kind of simple but I don’t know when to start working up the soil in my garden. Every time the…